The Kenosha Kid

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/29/2005 12:30:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
paul.mackin at verizon.net writes:

> Some information about "The Kenosha Kid" story I need to impart is that 
> this particular Kenosha Kid takes  his name not from the Kenosha of 
> Wisconsin but rather from "the Kenosha Pass" in the Colorado Rockies.  
> One could easily make quite of bit out of this vis-a-vis the Pynchon 
> novel. A pass is an interface and the idea of interface is very 
> prominent in Part I--Beyond the Zero.  A mountain pass is an interface 
> between two sides of a mountain and the passes one drives or hikes 
> through in the Rockies form the interface par excellence of American 
> geography--that is, the North/South line of which the Rockies are a part 
> is the American Continental Divide, from one side or the other of which 
> (in the case of the Rockies) water flows East into the Mississippi River 
> or West into the Pacific Ocean.
> 



>From Whitman's, "A Passage India"

Passage to India... 
Lo, soul! seest thou not God’s purpose from the first?      
The earth to be spann’d, connected by net-work,     
The people to become brothers and sisters,      
The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage,        
The oceans to be cross’d, the distant brought near, 
The lands to be welded together.        
    
 http://www.bartleby.com/142/183.html

The interface or passage between two contradictory states as the 
middle ground between them- avoiding self-contradiction without 
suspending the middle: transcendence or doublethink?

Bandwraith
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